Set Up

This use case demonstrates how to upload a list with your own marine species observations in order to know how many times these species were already observed in a 1.000 meter radius around your observation points (based on OBIS). 

It combines two web services in a fixed order: 1. Taxon match and 2. Number of observations in a 1000m radius around a point. 

1. The web service 'Taxon match' matches the marine species names to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). If a species name is available in WoRMS, this web service renders its AphiaID (a unique identifier of Aphia, the database behind WoRMS), its status (accepted or unaccepted) and its accepted name. This output information is added as extra columns to the original input file. 

[NOTE: the taxon match can also match taxon names to other taxonomic databases and nomenclatures, such as e.g. Catalogue of Life (CoL), the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), etc. For this use case we only select WoRMS, since the uploaded list contains purely marine species.]

2. The web service 'Number of observations in a 1000m radius around a point' defines a radius of 1000m around the uploaded observation points. Based on the AphiaID generated by the taxon match, this web service determines the observation records for the species in the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), in this specific radius. This number of observations is added to the input file as an extra column.